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What is the title of Galen's treatise that emphasizes the importance of philosophy in medicine?

  • That the Best Physician Is Also a Philosopher

  • On the Nature of Man

  • De humani corporis fabrica

  • Commentary on Anatomy in Avicenna's Canon

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Galen wrote a treatise titled That the Best Physician Is Also a Philosopher, which highlights the importance of philosophy in medicine. He saw himself as both a physician and a philosopher, and his work represents a complex middle ground between the rationalist and empiricist medical sects.
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